CAN GERMANY WIN?????????

Bold plan there, but as someone else said that was very lucky. If the AA scored a hit I think you would have lost. Good job though and I’m pretty sure that those guys were pissed, lol.

First off,Germany needs to take just one capital to win the game(Moscow,Great Britain,or the U.S.).I personally try to take all three capitals if I have the time or luck.This is a very difficult task to say the least.

only an east coast :wink:

@Grigoriy:

IMO, the game is unbalanced towards the Allies, however, I’ve seen the Germans win a time or two, and they come close most of the time, even though most doesn’t cut it.

Yes, “most, sometimes, maybe, long-shot” doesn’t cut it. This game should make players want to play both sides just for a change. Though I always choose Axis, perhaps I’ll start playing as the Allies as I’d like to win a few…

Game History

Round :1

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 3 artillerys and 4 infantry; 0 PUs remaining

Combat Move - Russians
            1 armour and 3 infantry moved from Archangel to West Russia
            2 armour, 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Russia to West Russia
            1 infantry moved from Karelia S.S.R. to Archangel
            2 infantry moved from Karelia S.S.R. to West Russia
            1 fighter moved from Karelia S.S.R. to West Russia
            1 fighter moved from Russia to West Russia
            1 armour and 1 artillery moved from Caucasus to West Russia
            2 infantry moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Caucasus
            1 infantry moved from Caucasus to West Russia
            2 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Russia
            2 infantry moved from Evenki National Okrug to Russia
            2 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Buryatia S.S.R.
            1 infantry moved from Soviet Far East to Buryatia S.S.R.
            1 submarine moved from 4 Sea Zone to 2 Sea Zone

Combat - Russians
            Battle in West Russia
                Russians attack with 4 armour, 2 artillerys, 2 fighters and 9 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 armour, 1 artillery and 3 infantry
                    Russians roll dice for 4 armour, 2 artillerys, 2 fighters and 9 infantry in West Russia, round 1 :  4/17 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery and 3 infantry in West Russia, round 1 :  4/5 hits
                    4 infantry owned by the Russians , 3 infantry owned by the Germans and 1 artillery owned by the Germans lost in West Russia
                    Russians roll dice for 4 armour, 2 artillerys, 2 fighters and 5 infantry in West Russia, round 2 :  6/13 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour in West Russia, round 2 :  0/1 hits
                    1 armour owned by the Germans lost in West Russia
                Russians win, taking West Russia from Germans with 4 armour, 2 artillerys, 2 fighters and 5 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Germans: 1 armour, 1 artillery and 3 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 4 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 aaGun moved from Russia to West Russia
            1 fighter moved from West Russia to Caucasus
            1 fighter moved from West Russia to Caucasus

Place Units - Russians
            2 artillerys and 2 infantry placed in Caucasus
            1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 26 PUs; end with 26 PUs total

Territory Summary for Russians :

Soviet Far East : 1 infantry
    Archangel : 1 infantry
    Caucasus : 1 aaGun, 2 artillerys, 1 factory, 2 fighters and 6 infantry
    West Russia : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 4 armour, 2 artillerys and 5 infantry
    Buryatia S.S.R. : 5 infantry
    Russia : 1 artillery, 1 factory and 6 infantry
    2 Sea Zone : 1 submarine

Production/PUs Summary :

Russians : 26 / 26
    Germans : 38 / 40
    British : 30 / 30
    Japanese : 30 / 30
    Americans : 42 / 42

A&A Forum : http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=1987.7#msg32241

I would say at first that Germany was much stronger because of the amount of tanks and the lack of UK and USA support for the Soviets :cry: . Now I think is it even :D . Last two times I played the Allies I invoked the “Shell Germany back to the stone age method”. All the Allies (USA and UK) need to do is build all destroyers and a few transports that will carry one tank each. I would just beach land on Germany with one just one transport carrying just one tank and bombard with as many destroyers as possible. By round 5 I had UK shelling the Germans with 7 destroyers and just one tank. I did the same with the USA. The reason why this works is in a bombard your destroyers will shoot only once at a 2 for cover support and the one tank that costs only 5 ipcs will fire at a 3. Now this is where Germany gets screwed :D because they can only kill the tank. So in that battle the Allies will only loose one tank while the Germans will lose more (simple economics). This is a good tactic for two reasons one being the simple number losses for the Germans and two and equally as important is that is forces Germany to buy infantry to defend Germany rather then the speedy tanks that attack at a 3 and can be used to aid the down fall of the Soviets. Keep doing this and keep adding destroyers to the attacking group. USA will need at least 3 transports and the UK will need two transports to provide a constant stream of one transport carrying one tank to the German coast.

Now the Soviets can’t run and hide they must attack the German tanks at the right time. Which is when they are defending at a 2 and don’t have allot of infantry that can used for fodder. This is a common tactic with A&A. So the battle between the Soviets and the Germans boils down to who can kill whose tank force first.

The only thing else I can think of is use your 12 ipc at the beginning to match what ever the Germans do. Just to play it safe.

Ultimately its the random rolls of the dice that decides who wins the battle. All you can do is play the percentages.

Hope this helps :D

SEI

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You have to follow history atleast slightly. Pull all russia forces back to your cities and if that wont hold think of puting every man in moscow. That is an incredible amount of defense. It is also key that america and the UK take the sea and put pressure on Germany so they cant devote all their forces and money to killing russia. They might even want to consider shiping planes over that russia can take control of. 8 planes in moscow with a role of 4 or less is incredible defense against tanks. If the Germans are going after russia full force just pull back to moscow and let US and UK take the covoys back, supply troops, and put pressure on Germany. If Germany always wins it is because the people playing US and UK suck at the game.